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**professional accomplishments | **professional accomplishments | ||
*photographs | *photographs | ||
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*personal letters of historical significance | *personal letters of historical significance | ||
*immigration records | *immigration records | ||
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=== Living Relatives === | === Living Relatives === | ||
Contact living relatives asking them for information they are willing to share. Even though people's memories may be unreliable, these stories give clues about where to start looking. Family traditions may be the needle in the haystack which helps you locate records you may otherwise be unable to find. | Contact living relatives asking them for information they are willing to share. Even though people's memories may be unreliable, these stories give clues about where to start looking. Family traditions may be the needle in the haystack which helps you locate records you may otherwise be unable to find. Be sure to ask them about specifics including places and dates where things occured. | ||
It is particularly valuable to contact living relatives as soon as you can. If you put it off, memories may fade, photographs may disappear, or people may pass on without giving you a chance to learn their story. There are some good tips at [[Creating Oral Histories]] and [[ | It is particularly valuable to contact living relatives as soon as you can. If you put it off, memories may fade, photographs may disappear, or people may pass on without giving you a chance to learn their story. There are some good tips at [[Creating Oral Histories]] and [[Oral Personal History]] with ideas about how to effectively interview and record other people's stories. | ||
=== Names === | |||
Ask about names of people in your family. Was someone named after a particular relative? Why? Are certain names traditional in your family? (If so, they can give you clues to which names to look for later.) Is there a tradition about how people are named in your family (naming a child after a parent or grandparent, for instance). | |||
== Keep Good Notes == | == Keep Good Notes == | ||
== Rules of the Road == | == Rules of the Road == | ||